Author Nationality

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Nationality : Irish

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Nationality : Irish

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Nationality : Irish

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Nationality : Irish

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Nationality : Irish

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Nationality : Irish

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Nationality : Irish

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Nationality : Irish

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Nationality : Irish

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Nationality : Irish